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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 09:46:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: Chris Timmons <skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu>
To: dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
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Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) 
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Are you trying to win the "Works with eDns!" stamp of approval for
rhetorical acrimony? 

You've seen how FreeBSD releases are constructed by breaking off branches
from -current and stabilizing them over a period of time.  Feature sets
appear in -current well before ever making it into a release, so there is
planning time.  As for FreeBSD-SMP, it is no secret that it exists and has
been loosely targeted for 3.0, what more do you want?  

I've been tracking FreeBSD development since pre-2.0 and personally feel
that you're being unfairly critical.  IMHO.

-Chris


On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, dennis wrote:

> Why is this "annoucement" such a big secret? Are you just not sure yet? You
> complain about no commercial vendors not being interested in FreeBSD, and 
> then you give us this horsecrap about  "wait 90 days for the big unveiling..."
> 
> Are you announcing 3.0R availability, in which case we're wasting our time
> integrating the current release? or will it be integrated in 2.2x? Or will
> there be
> a multiple release nightmare? Why dont you tell us so we can plan....you cant 
> market a product using freebsd is you dont know what the damn plan is. Setting
> up basic marketing takes more than 90 days...
> 
> 
> Dennis
>